You were made to rise.

To take your pain and convert it to purpose.

To take your struggle and transform it into meaning.

In a world of concession, of self-sabotage and defeat, you were made to rise.

And so it's critical that you look around where you are now and adjust your lens.

It's critical that you see the present moment, not as an ending, the culmination of wrong turns or broken plans, but as the beginning of what all that will be turned into.

This start of the next chapter, a new road, because you were made to rise.

Life has an interesting way of not because you were made to rise.

Life has an interesting way of not pushing us to be more until our backs are against the wall,

until we've fallen or found ourselves where we don't belong, but it's down in the ashes that were presented this blessing, that were given

the chance to be more than we've ever been.

You weren't made to look around and call this diminished reality home.

No, you were made to rise.

Life is about decisions, what to accept and what to cut away,

and it's in our moments of distress, we must find our calm.

When we feel low that we must remember the heights we're capable of obtaining.

Look, our greatest invitations, they often feel like defeat, like hopelessness, but see beyond that narrative.

Look in the mirror and know that what looks back at you isn't the

problem. It's the reason you'll succeed. Someday you'll see the present as the

moment that made you, the days that shaped you just as a sculptor arrives at his

masterpiece. So stand up, brush yourself off and look up because

that is where you're going. Now is where it begins. You weren't made to accept what is.

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